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Edit : Bumped. If you have not voted please do. Thanks Iain Dale launched on his blog Politicians’ Performance Index for Britain so I thought why not have one here to. Sure people love polls Anyway the Irish Election performance index will ask people once a month to rate politicians performance. You shall find the [...]

It took me a while to realise there was something very odd about the latest RedC poll in the Sunday Business Post. Sure, Fianna Fáil has dipped precipitously. Well, after the month they’ve had one would think they’d better be down, at least a bit. Provisional Licences, pay increases, the latest noises from the Tribunal [...]

Rough details here, more as it comes out. Its mostly as you were, FF unchanged, Greens at 7%, FG unchanged while Labour loses 1%. I suppose that it will come as a bit of a surprise to both sides as both Labour and Fine Gael could not have been happier with 1)their start to the [...]

The poll in the sidebar has some of the main coalition options to decide upon. Projected numbers at this stage are: FF:78 FG:51 LAB:20 SF:4 Green:6 PD:2 Ind:5 There are 8 answers at present, feel free to leave your reasons/conjecture in the comments.  If I have overlooked/forgotten an obvious one, remind me.

Released just after seven o clock this morning on Morning Ireland, the RTE Exit Poll with Landsdown Marketing. Main findings below (expect analyis later). Margin of error 2.5% (in 2002 it was effectively 1% between FF and FG) Fianna Fail on 41.6% almost = to 2002 Fine Gael up 4% to 26.3% Labour 9.9% down [...]

World by Storm awaits tomorrow’s flurry, to pass the time thought, the mysay widget is getting a bit of a test out. One of the early insights comes from Knott who is in Cork East. He was asked to take part in the Exit Poll for RTE, have a listen to what he thought of [...]

Results as an incredible 1039 people vote in our poll. Fianna Fail: 22% (229) Fine Gael: 21% (220) Labour: 14% (144) Progressive Democrats: 13% (135) Green Party: 12% (125) Sinn Fein: 11% (118) Independents: 1% (15) Socalists: 2% (20) Can’t vote: 2% (24) Wouldn’t vote: 1% (9) Something tells me that this is not representative [...]

From the Business Post: The general election race is too close to call on the eve of polling day, as the final tracking poll of the campaign suggests neither Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats nor Fine Gael, Labour and the Green Party will win sufficient Dail seats to form a government. The latest figures [...]

How was the election for you? Perhaps the question is a little premature as it’s still dragging on, with FG leader Enda Kenny, like a WWF contender having been knocked to ground by a devilish leg swing from an opponent he confidentially thought was floored, swinging back with the kitten punches of a child. On [...]

Rumoured results thanks to Brian Boru in comments Rumoured poll (TNS-MRBI) tomorrow: FF 41% (+5) FG 27%(-1) Labour 10% (-3) SF 9% (-1) Greens 6% (+1) PDs 2% (unchanged) FF-PD: 43% FG-Lab-Greens: 43%

So there are two polls to be reading through and picking over tomorrow morning and I reckon that on paper this looks worse for FG and better for FF than it actually is. I’ve just been reading the hard copy and in truth their numbers have been within a 2-3% range since march. The really [...]

FF 36 (+1) FG 27 (-2) LAB 11 (-1) Greens 8 (+2) SF 10 (+3) PD 2(-1) Ind 6(-2) From the Sunday Independent FF 37 (+2) FG 25 (-1) LAB 12 (-1) Greens 5 (no change) SF 9 (-1) PD 3 (no change) Ind 9 (+1) Hat tip P.ie

The evening Herald has a poll of support in the capital. Interesting to see SF bigger then Green. PD’s still in margin of error. FF 29% FG 22% Labour 15% Green 8% Progressive Democrats 3% Sinn Fein 11%

With the first of the big debates on tonight the parties will be gearing to take on the floating voters. The poll we have been running shows that 48% of people are floating voters after 203 votes. Which compared to the poll back in February when 32% said they were floating is very surprising. This [...]

Since the advent of our 24-hour news culture, I have noticed a marked increase in downright lazy journalism in the mainstream media. Added to the raging torrent of coalition speculation and BertieGate updates, opinion polls continue to drown even the most fundamental policy issues in this election campaign. Analyzing these surveys is to reporting what [...]

This is the second installment of our unique poll which uses individual constituency odds from bookmaker Paddy Power to predict the make up of the next Dáil (for the results of our first poll and more information on how this is put together, see here). This time we have odds from all 43 constituencies and [...]